Archive for June, 2010
![Trading the DOW futures market]()
I got home today and decided to see if I could quickly scalp the DOW jones. You can see that the market fell shortly after the open and bounced back up a little. I was looking for a long trade if the market went above the previous high. I had an order at 10385 and was looking to ride it as far as possible, selling out as soon as I felt some resistance in the market.
Well, the order triggered and went up nicely... the first port of resistance was the big round number at 10400 and I got out aro
June 17, 2010
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![GBPUSD - all in a days trading (or not)]()
Today I woke up early and was rather more alert than usual. This is not a good thing necessarily when it comes to trading.. certainly not in my case. I saw that the market had consolidated from yesterday after shooting up strongly. A consolidation usually happens after any particularly large moves so rather normal.. however, the market could have easily topped here or just biding time before heading higher. I wanted to play it safe so I didn't trade...
The 4-to-7 trading system's range was 14
June 15, 2010
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![Monster Rally on the GBPUSD]()
The GBPUSD really powered ahead today.. I was trading my 4-to-7 breakout strategy and got my 30 pips. It seems pathetic when the market powered on another 170 pips or so.. still, a profit is a profit!
The range was 14632 and 14597.
I didn't trade the 9-to-9 however. If the range is over 120 pips or so, the movement has already been too large for the day. Also, I can't scale my trade to be small enough so that the hefty pip stop loss is a mere 5% of my trading account.
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June 14, 2010
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